It helps project managers with project planning, budgeting and compliance.

It helps appraisers defensibly determine eco-asset based highest and best use for rural lands.

The Mitigation Credit Price Report (MCPR) provides bid, ask and sales price records for compensatory mitigation credits from across the U.S., from the 1990s to the present. The database includes nearly 1100 records and is growing every week. It includes market price references for:

Although the volume of credit transactions is steadily growing, market visibility remains low. Market transparency has also been low while credit price volatility has been high as a result. But the ecological economy is rapidly expanding. Ecosystem service values are on the minds of regulators, NGOs, business and industry and land owners and investors alike. The MCPR overcomes market inefficiencies and encourages market growth by improving credit price transparency, reducing credit price volatility thereby ensuring more knowledgeable, confident market participation.

What does the MCPR cover?

The mitigation credit database currently contains over 1000 references for U.S. mitigation credit market values for 37 states, from the early 1990s to the present day. The number of MCPR records continues to grow as researchers gather new data to support new projects across the U.S. This makes the entire dataset more valuable to market participants each year.

Every record is given a unique identifier for tracking and reporting purposes, making it a permanent representation of mitigation credit market value at a designated location and point in time. Records are shown in relation to transaction geography including state, county and city. Records represent bid-ask prices, advertised sale prices and market value estimates, or actual transaction prices given by people knowledgeable about the industry and the marketplace.

MCPR can be ‘sliced and diced’ in many different ways, whether geographically — for the entire U.S., by counties and cities — or by credit providers including mitigation bank names as well as primary and secondary credit types. Below are sample representations of the data.

MCPR – sample Excel file

Wetland mitigation credit value has consistently risen over the past 30 years, outperforming many traditional commodities.

Comparing the number of wetland and conservation credit price records, 1990-2015

Gathering MCPR data is a laborious undertaking. Even though we use a combination of Google ‘bots and experienced hands-on researchers, it takes a lot of patience to locate these data referents on the web, transfer the information to spreadsheet form, then copy and store the permanent URL citation.

Each data record, a permanent mitigation credit price referent, represents about 60 minutes of labor, a full hour, to compile. The data is then priced far below typical industry hourly rates for your quick acquisition and use.

In addition, starting in 2019 the data was dis-aggregated to make it more accessible to a wider range of buyers.

Please browse the following offerings to find MCPR data packages that are most closely aligned with your interests and needs.